Chapter Summaries

Li Qing claimed a Low-grade Luck Gu, discovered that he could see other people’s luck, and studied the Gu-refining methods needed to advance it. After teaching Fan Yun artifact-refining techniques and gathering materials for more Luck Gu, he spotted the Ascension Platform as a promising place to refine them.

• Li Qing claimed the Luck Gu, saw the luck above others, and killed the Nascent Soul cultivators who had plotted against him while sparing Fan Yun.
• Li Qing studied the Manual of Strange Gu and learned how to refine and advance Luck Gu, along with the uses of Heavenly Secret Gu and Essence Transformation Gu.
• Li Qing taught Fan Yun artifact-refining techniques, including turning artifact refinement into threads and Heaven-Stealing Dao Patterns.
• Li Qing gathered enough materials to refine ten Low-grade Luck Gu and heard that word of his Void Refinement cultivation had spread through Ascension City.
• Li Qing reached the Ascension Platform and realized that the Land of Ascending Immortals could provide a suitable place to advance the Luck Gu.

Li Qing planned to refine his Luck Gu around the Ascension spectacle and considered the rare materials needed for an Essence Transformation Gu. He traded two jars of Ape Wine to Cave Master Huoyun for information about Destiny Spring and a token to compete for its Dao Integration opportunity, then agreed to contend for the golden spring water.

• Li Qing decided to refine his Luck Gu near the Ascension Platform when the next Ascension spectacle appeared and searched Ascension City for materials for other Gu insects.
• Li Qing learned that the rare materials for Essence Transformation Gu were difficult to obtain and decided to pursue them later.
• Li Qing visited Fire Cloud Cave and negotiated with Cave Master Huoyun, who initially demanded two jars of Ape Wine for information and an entry token.
• Cave Master Huoyun agreed to include a treasury item in exchange for the two jars, and Li Qing handed them over.
• Cave Master Huoyun explained that Destiny Spring's golden water could aid a cultivator's Dao Integration foundation and gave Li Qing a token to compete for access to the spring.
• Li Qing accepted the challenge of competing for Destiny Spring in seventy-nine years, and Cave Master Huoyun led him toward the treasury.

Li Qing selected a lifeless Jianmu branch from Cave Master Huoyun’s treasury to complete his Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and tried to restore it with Seven-Colored Vitality Essence. After spending over a hundred thousand years of lifespan with only limited results, he received memories of the World Tree and realized that his approach might be wrong.

• Cave Master Huoyun showed Li Qing the treasures in Fire Cloud Cave’s treasury and told him that Body Integration Realm cultivators could view the Dao Palace’s original Daoist Canon Heavenly Book after proving their loyalty to the human race.
• Li Qing chose the lifeless Jianmu branch, which his Immortal Slaying Sword Formation needed, and completed the transaction with Cave Master Huoyun.
• Li Qing returned to his courtyard, entered his Grotto-Heaven World, and began using Seven-Colored Vitality Essence to revive the branch.
• Li Qing spent more than a hundred thousand years of lifespan, turning the branch green but failing to restore its fundamental vitality.
• Li Qing recalled the idea of taking root and sprouting, then received memories of the Demon Venerable that revealed Jianmu’s legendary origins as the World Tree and suggested his method might be wrong.

Li Qing awakened a World Tree branch into a nascent tree within his Grotto-Heaven World, then spent two years strengthening his divine soul as the Ascension Convention drew near. He agreed to accompany Fan Yun to the Fan Family’s artifact refining competition, where the winner could seek entry into the Heaven Refining Pavilion.

• Li Qing’s vitality awakened the World Tree branch, which rooted into the worldstone and began to nourish his Grotto-Heaven World.
• Li Qing chose to cultivate the little World Tree rather than refine it into his Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, and considered nourishing it with Chaos Origin.
• Over the next two years, Li Qing mastered the third level of the Soul Refining Scripture and strengthened his divine soul to the Body Integration Realm level.
• Fan Yun asked Li Qing to accompany him to the Fan Family’s artifact refining competition, explaining that its top three participants could earn recommendations to the Heaven Refining Pavilion.
• Li Qing agreed to protect Fan Yun at the competition and decided to consider joining the Heaven Refining Pavilion after the Ascension Convention.
• Three days later, Li Qing and Fan Yun set out for the Fan Family’s competition, which drew attention because of the family’s connection to the Heaven Refining Pavilion.

Fan Yun attended the Fan Family’s artifact refining competition with Li Qing, where the family’s descendants mocked and excluded him. While the competition unfolded, Li Qing secretly studied the Heaven Refining Canon’s upper volume, and Fan Yun remained one of the final two refiners still competing as the chapter ended.

• Five Elements Sect’s Mizhu arrived at the Fan estate, and Family Head Fan Shouyi welcomed him on behalf of the clan.
• Fan Yun arrived with Li Qing, endured the family’s jeers, and entered after Li Qing claimed to be his artifact refining assistant.
• Li Qing used his spiritual sense to read the Heaven Refining Canon Upper Volume from the estate tower and learned its method for raising the grade of ordinary materials.
• Seven days into the competition, Fan Yun refined his materials using a technique Li Qing had taught him while the Fan Family planned to deny him a recommendation slot.
• Fan Xinming failed to forge a Spirit Treasure and salvaged his spear as a magical treasure, leaving Fan Xinyue and Fan Yun as the final competitors still refining.

Fan Yun completed a rare soul-attacking spirit treasure and claimed second place, but the Fan Family tried to stop him from leaving. Li Qing killed the elder who attacked Fan Yun and revealed his perfected Void Refinement cultivation, leaving the gathered cultivators shaken.

• Fan Xinyue completed the Meteor Staff, and its meteors were destroyed above Ascension City; the Fan Family awarded her first place.
• Fan Yun used Heaven-Stealing Dao Patterns to complete the Jade Soul Bell, impressing the artifact refiners, but the Fan Family judged him second.
• Fan Yun asked the Fan Family Patriarch for the pavilion entry token and refused the Fan Family’s offer to cover his travel costs.
• Fan Yun invoked the ancestral rules when his Fourth Uncle attacked him, and Li Qing killed the elder with heavenly lightning.
• Li Qing revealed his perfected Void Refinement aura, and the Fire Cloud Cave cultivator recognized him as Brother Wuji.

Li Qing intimidated the Fan Family into giving Fan Yun the token he needed to take Heaven Refining Pavilion’s entrance examination, then left Ascension City with Qiyin to seek a place for his Luck Gu to advance. At Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate’s shrine, he encountered two women from the Feng Family, whose presence stirred his Kunpeng Divine Power, and departed before the Ascension Convention.

• Li Qing revealed a Body Integration-level soul and let Fan Yun decide the Fan Family’s fate; Fan Yun spared his former relatives and claimed the token for Heaven Refining Pavilion’s entrance examination.
• Li Qing left the Fan Family with Fan Yun, accepted his gratitude, and said he might later join Heaven Refining Pavilion as a guest elder.
• Rumors about Li Qing’s power spread through Ascension City while he searched for a suitable place to advance the Luck Gu.
• Li Qing and Qiyin paid their respects at Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate’s shrine, where they met Feng Family sisters Su Ling and her white-robed elder sister.
• Li Qing sensed his Kunpeng Divine Power stirring around the sisters and left Ascension City with Qiyin to seek another convergence point of luck and refine eight Low-grade Luck Gu.

Li Qing left Ascension City to refine Luck Gu in the Jing Dynasty while raising Qi Yin, whose unusual aura proved she possessed the Great Yin Physique. After several months of refining, a crimson spiritual radiance escaped the Imperial Palace as its luck statue shattered.

• Li Qing took Qi Yin to the Jing Dynasty’s Imperial Palace, where he planned to refine Luck Gu using the dynasty’s abundant fortune.
• Li Qing let Qi Yin choose a cultivation art, and she chose the Plain Woman Yin Scripture because she was drawn to its Yin nature.
• After a year and a half of teaching Qi Yin, Li Qing confirmed that she possessed the Great Yin Physique.
• Li Qing sent Qi Yin to the Grotto-Heaven World and began refining Luck Gu beneath the Imperial Palace.
• Several months later, the imperial family’s luck statue shattered, and a crimson spiritual radiance escaped from beneath the palace before disappearing into the city.

Li Qing returned to Ascension City ahead of the Ascension Convention, monitored the fortune consumed by his nine Luck Gu, and planned what to seek and sell at the gathering. After Mo Feng and Hu Chuan clashed near the Ascension Dao Platform, the city lord stopped their fight, while Su Yin took an interest in Li Qing as a possible husband for Su Ling.

• Li Qing returned to Ascension City and calculated that his fortune would remain sufficient until he could advance the nine Luck Gu to the middle grade.
• Li Qing secretly gathered news about the convention and planned to sell pills and dates while seeking Earth Core Jade Milk, rare materials, law manifestations, and bloodlines.
• Mo Feng challenged Hu Chuan near the Ascension Dao Platform over Hu Chuan's past actions, and the two exchanged a powerful attack.
• The Ascension City Lord separated Mo Feng and Hu Chuan and warned them not to damage the city, after which neither resumed the fight.
• Li Qing regretted that he could not obtain the fortune of either talent and left the area.
• Su Yin told Su Ling that Li Qing seemed suitable as a live-in son-in-law, but Su Ling rejected the idea.

During the Ascension Convention, Li Qing used the surge of luck beneath a shrine to evolve his nine Luck Gu into a Mid-grade Luck Gu. After the spectacle, he encountered a mysterious Youth in Hemp Clothes whose immense dragon-shaped luck could potentially complete the Luck Gu’s advancement.

• Mo Feng claimed the Ascension Dao Platform, and Lan Bingyu and the Feng Family twins arrived as cultivators gathered for the spectacle.
• The Ascension Wonder Light crossed the sky while Li Qing placed nine Luck Gu beneath a shrine and urged them to devour one another.
• Li Qing’s surviving Luck Gu finished evolving into a Mid-grade Luck Gu, leaving him with luck roughly twice that of an ordinary person.
• A Youth in Hemp Clothes approached Li Qing unseen, asked about the spirit insect, and invited him to walk together.
• Li Qing saw a true dragon formed from the youth’s extraordinary luck, then declined the invitation and left to attend to his own matters.

The Ascension Convention began as cultivators gathered in Ascension City to trade treasures, and Li Qing joined the fair hosted by Integrated Body Realm experts. He watched Zheng Mo offer the Sun Moon Pot’s refinement method, which Su Yin ultimately acquired by trading Enlightenment Immortal Tea leaves and spirit stones.

• Hu Chuan returned with his Third Uncle and learned that capturing and refining Ascension Wonder Light was difficult except for Mahayana Realm experts or those with an Immortal Spirit Body.
• Cultivators filled Ascension Plaza for the free trading convention, and Li Qing revealed his perfected Void Refinement stage cultivation to approach the high-level fair.
• Li Qing greeted the Youth in Hemp Clothes and received a nod from Su Yin, while he remained wary of the young man’s unusual fortune.
• Zheng Mo displayed the Sun Moon Pot’s refinement method and asked for an Enlightenment Pill or three fresh leaves of Enlightenment Immortal Tea.
• Hu Chuan’s elder offered one tea leaf, but Zheng Mo refused, and Li Qing abandoned his interest in the method after hearing the price.
• Su Yin offered two fresh tea leaves and five Top-grade Spirit Stones, and Zheng Mo agreed to trade her the refinement method.

At the trading convention, Grandmother Cai Lian offered a Supreme Clarity Pearl in exchange for a future chance to enter the Dao Palace and view the Dao Canon. Hu Chuan accepted her offer, seeking to cleanse the impurities in his Nascent Soul caused by the Taotie Family’s devouring cultivation technique.

• Su Ling and Su Yin tentatively agreed to trade two leaves of Enlightenment Immortal Tea for the Sun Moon Pot’s refining method, and paid Zheng Mo five Top-grade Spirit Stones as a deposit.
• Grandmother Cai Lian presented her Supreme Clarity Pearl and explained how it could purify a cultivator’s Nascent Soul and assist with breaking through to the Body Integration Realm.
• Grandmother Cai Lian asked a Void Refinement stage cultivator to give her their future Dao Palace invitation in exchange for the pearl.
• The gathered cultivators learned that the Dao Canon had once granted the Heaven Refining Pavilion’s founding pavilion master the Heaven Refining Scripture.
• Hu Chuan accepted Grandmother Cai Lian’s trade, intending to use the pearl to remove impurities left by the Taotie Family’s cultivation technique.

Li Qing won Abyss Venerable’s Heaven-reaching Remnant Treasure, a fragment of the Sea Suppressing Trident, for ten million spirit stones, then opened a stall at the Ascension Convention. He traded rare goods and arranged an exchange of Lightning Tribulation Liquid for Hu Chuan’s Supreme Clarity Pearl, while continuing to seek valuable materials.

• Abyss Venerable offered a fragment of the Sea Suppressing Trident, and Li Qing outbid the others with ten million spirit stones to obtain it.
• Li Qing displayed rare treasures and offered artifact-refinement services, drawing the attention of Grandmother Cai Lian and the Feng Family’s Su Yin.
• Hu Chuan offered his Supreme Clarity Pearl for Lightning Tribulation Liquid, and Li Qing agreed to trade one drop plus one million spirit stones after the convention.
• Li Qing sold four Five Elements Returning Origin Pills and exchanged a jar of Ape Wine with Zheng Mo for five drops of seventh-rank Primordial Nether Crocodile essence blood.
• Li Qing restocked his stall with another jar of Ape Wine and announced that only two jars remained.

At the Ascension Convention, Li Qing learned that the Taotie Family might be plotting to reclaim the Sea Suppressing Trident fragment and that Abyss Venerable could threaten him with the Devouring Law. While seeking a safer way to complete his deal for the Supreme Clarity Pearl, he discovered and refined the Heavenly Fiend Fire, using its killing intent to form Fiend Armor.

• Long Yi warned Li Qing to beware Taotie and revealed that the Hu family had gathered most of the Sea Suppressing Trident fragments and could track them.
• Li Qing traded Ape Wine for Sixth-grade escape talismans and considered seeking Seventh-grade talismans, but found Sect Master Zheng had already left Ascension City.
• Li Qing decided the Heaven-reaching Remnant Treasure could be hidden in the Grotto-Heaven Treasure or Eternal Night World while he pursued the Supreme Clarity Pearl deal.
• Li Qing sensed Heavenly Fiend Fire at a stall and suppressed its killing intent for its distressed owner.
• Li Qing traded Fanming Pills and a Wood Attribute Five Yuan Date for the fire, refined it with the Crimson Blazing Heaven Art, and condensed its killing intent into black Fiend Armor.

Li Qing prepared for the suspicious trade of the Supreme Clarity Pearl with Hu Chuan by arranging protection from the Ascension City Lord. After cleansing his Nascent Soul with one use of the pearl, he returned it to Hu Chuan and gained greater confidence in reaching the Body Integration Realm.

• Li Qing studied the Heavenly Fiend Flame and prepared to counter the Taotie Family’s Devouring Law with its dangerous Killing Intent.
• Hu Chuan visited Li Qing and insisted that Abyss Venerable supervise Li Qing’s use of the Supreme Clarity Pearl; they arranged to trade the next day.
• Li Qing met Hu Chuan and Abyss Venerable at Hu Chuan’s cave dwelling, exchanged two drops of Lightning Tribulation Liquid for the Supreme Clarity Pearl, and summoned the Ascension City Lord to protect him.
• Li Qing swallowed the Supreme Clarity Pearl and began purifying his Nascent Soul while Abyss Venerable and the Ascension City Lord watched.
• Li Qing used one charge of the pearl, returned it to Hu Chuan with its remaining use intact, and said the purification had increased his confidence in breaking through to the Body Integration Realm.

Li Qing escaped the Taotie Family’s attempt to seize his treasures with help from City Lord Bai Mei, then chose to travel to Star River City and pursue the Heaven Refining Pavilion. The Hu family discovered that the Sea Suppressing Trident fragment could no longer track him and suspected he had hidden it inside a Grotto-Heaven Treasure.

• Li Qing completed his trade with Hu Chuan, left with City Lord Bai Mei, and gave him Creation Source Liquid in thanks for his protection.
• Abyss Venerable and Hu Chuan discussed their failed attempt to capture Li Qing and planned to investigate his identity and origins.
• Li Qing checked that no spies followed him, used Ascension City’s Teleportation Array, and chose Star River City to improve his artifact-refining skills at the Heaven Refining Pavilion.
• Li Qing hid the Sea Suppressing Trident fragment inside his Grotto-Heaven Treasure before teleporting away and planned to seek Earth Core Jade Milk and refine a Heavenly Secret Gu.
• Abyss Venerable and Hu Chuan realized the fragment had vanished from their tracking and concluded that Li Qing likely possessed a Grotto-Heaven Treasure.

Li Qing arrived in Star River City to seek Earth Core Jade Milk, but found no leads and encountered a familiar cultivator being pressured to sell a Cloud Heart Lotus. He recognized Kun Yuan, intervened, and threatened the Thousand Mechanisms Sect disciples, leaving them to back down.

• Li Qing arrived in Star River City as Heaven Refining Pavilion issued a public mission to complete the incomplete forging method for the Thunder Sound Bow.
• Li Qing examined the difficult mission, then searched several spirit-material shops for Earth Core Jade Milk without finding any news.
• Li Qing heard an argument over a five-thousand-year Cloud Heart Lotus and recognized its seller as Kun Yuan, an old opponent from the lower realm.
• The Thousand Mechanisms Sect’s Young Sect Master and another cultivator blocked Kun Yuan and threatened to take his Cloud Heart Lotus by force.
• Li Qing’s Spiritual Pressure scattered the two cultivators’ auras, and he greeted Kun Yuan as an old friend before threatening to kill the Thousand Mechanisms Sect disciples if they stayed.

Li Qing drove off the Thousand Mechanisms Sect's Young Sect Master, then met Kun Yuan and agreed to accompany him into a dangerous hidden cave in exchange for the five-thousand-year Cloud Heart Lotus. Drinking Embroidered Spring Brew strengthened both men's bodies, and they arranged to meet outside Star River City in seven days.

• Li Qing intimidated the Thousand Mechanisms Sect's Young Sect Master into fleeing, and Kun Yuan thanked him for helping protect the Cloud Heart Lotus.
• Li Qing and Kun Yuan drank expensive Embroidered Spring Brew while Kun Yuan recounted surviving spatial turbulence during his ascension to the Spirit Realm.
• Kun Yuan revealed his plan to explore a dangerous hidden cave in the Barren Highlands and offered Li Qing the Cloud Heart Lotus to accompany and protect him.
• Li Qing and Kun Yuan agreed to divide the cave's finds according to their terms, then the Embroidered Spring Brew replayed their battles and greatly strengthened their bodies.
• Kun Yuan warned Li Qing that the Thousand Mechanisms Sect had powerful ancestors, and the two agreed to meet outside the city in seven days.

Li Qing and Kun Yuan explored a cavern in the Barren Highlands and discovered restrictions and a tiger phantom connected to the legendary Tiger Subduing Celestial Venerable. Li Qing's strongest fire attack failed, so he unleashed Void Flame against the White Tiger Gold Aspect, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Li Qing and Kun Yuan traveled to the Barren Highlands and found the cavern where Kun Yuan had heard beast roars.
• Li Qing discovered that the cavern's white motes carried a powerful Golden Dao force and inferred that a master of the Golden Dao Law had set the restrictions.
• A tiger's roar injured Kun Yuan, and he and Li Qing recognized signs of the Tiger Subduing Celestial Venerable's legacy.
• Li Qing sent Kun Yuan away and attacked the restrictions with five linked Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires, but a White Tiger Gold Aspect appeared and destroyed his fire dragon.
• Li Qing unleashed Void Flame, which halted the White Tiger Gold Aspect and set its body ablaze.

Li Qing broke the Golden Dao restriction and discovered that Kun Yuan had been a tiger ghoul who lured cultivators to free a sealed demon tiger. After the tiger's remnant soul dissipated, Li Qing found and buried the real Kun Yuan, then absorbed the luck left by his former fellow ascender.

• Li Qing burned away the White Tiger Gold Aspect with Void Flame, broke the restriction, and discovered Kun Yuan had vanished.
• Li Qing found Golden Dao Laws on the stone doors and let the Immortal Slaying Sword absorb them, clearing the way to open the doors.
• A black demon tiger emerged and revealed that the Kun Yuan Li Qing had met was a tiger ghoul; Li Qing fled until the remnant soul dissipated outside the cavern.
• Li Qing returned behind the stone doors and found the real Kun Yuan's corpse, which he buried in the cavern.
• Li Qing's Luck Gu devoured Kun Yuan's remaining ownerless luck, and Li Qing poured spirit wine over his grave.